Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

Elmer Gertz, the lawyer who successfully argued the initial case for the novel's publication in Illinois, became a lifelong friend of Miller's ; a volume of their correspondence has been published.

Ambach was initially charged with murder, but the charge was downgraded to manslaughter after Ambach's lawyer successfully invoked the gay panic defense.

Glanville successfully persuaded Hale to become a lawyer, and, after leaving Oxford at the age of 20 before obtaining a degree, he joined Lincoln's Inn on 8 November 1628.

Despite Downey's lawyer, John Stewart Holden, assembling for his client's 1999 defense the same team of lawyers that successfully defended O. J.

In each one of these cases, Colt's lawyer, Edward N. Dickerson, deftly exploited the patent system and successfully shut down Colt's competitors.

He gave up his right to a court-appointed lawyer and defended himself successfully.

Although legally too young to plead cases, he was allowed to do so and he successfully argued several in the Court of Assizes, attractinging the interest of the great liberal lawyer Berryer.

His lawyer successfully defended him and he was acquitted on the charge of " behaving in a manner likely to cause violence against person or property and using insulting language ".

In 1983 he successfully completed his studies and became an independent lawyer.

Robert Badinter (; born 30 March 1928 in Paris ) is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty, the abolition of which he successfully sponsored in Parliament in 1981.

) Defense attorneys Martin Merritt of Dallas and ACLU lawyer Michael Linz, also of Dallas, with others successfully won dismissal for the six defendants in federal district court.

In 1968 he left music to become a lawyer, successfully suing when his second album as leader was released under Corea's name without his consent.

Jess Willard was charged with second degree murder but was successfully defended by lawyer Earl Rogers.

Born in rural Gibson County, Indiana, Johnson studied to become a lawyer, successfully completing his studies at the age of 21 in Iowa.

Many of the defendants in the Star Routes trials were successfully defended by noted lawyer and orator, Robert Ingersoll.

In the Rhône wine region Baron Pierre Le Roy Boiseaumarié, a trained lawyer and winegrower from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, successfully obtained legal recognition of the " Côtes du Rhône " appellation of origin in 1937.

Ginola's lawyer successfully showed that not only had he kept up the payment, he was in actual fact six months in advance of the agreed schedule.

In January 2012, Christie became the first lawyer to successfully challenge an application under British Columbia's Civil Forfeiture Act, when the BC Supreme Court found that the retroactive forfeiture of a truck subsequent to a criminal prosecution was " clearly not in the interests of justice.

The airline corporation British Airways used a portion of " Beastie Revolution " ( without the band's permission ) in one of their television ads ; the Beastie Boys contacted a lawyer and successfully sued British Airways for $ 40, 000.

Former Waterbury State's Attorney, another dissenter like Robert Berdon ( and his occasional ally ), successfully integrated the Sheriffs into the Judicial Branch as Judicial Marshals and State Marshals, appointed a new lawyer grievance review panel, reduced a civil and criminal backlog, and worked to give the Appellate Court its own courthouse.

As a lawyer, he became a social activist and defended the less fortunate against the affluent.

In character he was very stern and unyielding, a lawyer rather than diplomat, who defended the privileges of the Church to his utmost.

The Venetian position was ably defended by a canon lawyer, Paolo Sarpi, who extended the matter to general principles defining separate secular and ecclesiastical spheres.

* Edmund Plowden, lawyer who defended religious freedom

' This view was not shared by the jury, which, after three days ’ hearing, acquitted Lilburne — who had defended himself as skilfully as any lawyer could have done — to the great horror of the Judges and the chagrin of the majority of the Council of State.

Before A. C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.

As a lawyer, Liebknecht often defended other left wing socialists who were tried for offences such as smuggling socialist propaganda into Russia, a task in which he was also involved.

In 1966, he also defended an arsonist who burned down a Jewish Community Center, killing twelve, because he was not provided a lawyer before he signed a confession.

After more than eight months in prison, Zenger went to trial defended by illustrious Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton.

Perth lawyer John Close knew him only as a client: a strange, silent immigrant whom Close had defended twice in court.

Bresci was captured and put on trial, where he was defended by the anarchist lawyer Francesco Saverio Merlino.

As a lawyer, he defended Estonians against Baltic Germans and state officials.

A renowned criminal lawyer, he defended some of the landmark cases in Malta during the 1980s.

He was defended by lawyer William Dummer Powell and acquitted by a jury declaring no grounds for the accusation.

As a lawyer, he became a social activist and defended the less fortunate against the affluent.

As a lawyer, he defended Ambroise-Dydime Lépine against the charge of murdering Thomas Scott during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870.

His nephew Elias Cornelius Boudinot, who had returned to the West and become a lawyer, defended him.

Born in Falkirk, the son of John Young and Agnes Renny, Young was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1836 as a Reformer ( or Liberal ) and, as a lawyer, defended Reform journalists accused of libel.

Trotsky was defended by the lawyer Albert Goldman.

Journalist and lawyer, he defended Jean Mons, Secretary-General of the Defense Committee, from charges of negligence in a case where Mons's assistant was accused of passing secrets of national security to communists.

His father Clarence, a prominent London lawyer, defended him at his subsequent trial ( for flying too low ).